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Film that begins with spaceship combat seen from a cockpit or control room
Could this be "Deep Red" (1994) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109589/ which (from memory) starts with a space battle from which an alien ship survives, crashes to Earth, and then ends up ...
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Film where man wakes up from simulation onboard alien ship
This must surely be Beyond the Aquila Rift, an episode of the TV series Love, Death, and Robots, although with a running time of 17 minutes it is a bit too brief to really be considered a movie. It ...
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Live-action TV show/movie where kids go into the world of a video game world which looks a lot like World of Warcraft
This TV series is probably "Code Lyoko".
The kids, when they are in the normal world, they are depicted with hand drawn animation style
and when they enter the virtual world, they are in a ...
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1960s? movie. Alien Entity gives 6-7 random people scatter around the world the power to wipe out all life in a large area around them
Sounds like The 27th Day (1957).
From Wikipedia:
The 27th Day is a 1957 American black-and-white science fiction film, distributed by Columbia Pictures. It was produced by Helen Ainsworth, directed ...
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What was the vampire movie where the protagonist gets cow's blood?
i guess this is from the 80's and they were in a barn, Its like LOST BOYS
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Sci-Fi Movie/Show Where a Soul is Captured in a Glass Vessel
I was also reminded of Soul Hunter. Especially reminiscent is the detail about capturing the souls in a glass vessel. The Soul Hunter carried his captured souls in glass globes.
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1970s TV movie of a haunted house that has a dead girl inside a chimney
Mystery Mansion (1983)...?
From Wikipedia:
Susan (Randi Brown) and her brother Johnny (David Wagner) come across an old map that may be a clue in finding gold, while staying at their aunt and uncle's ...
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Movie about giant murderous worms in the sand
This is Sand Serpents (2009).
From Wikipedia:
Sand Serpents is 2009 Canadian made-for-television sci-fi action horror film directed by Jeff Renfroe. It is the 19th film of the Maneater film series ...
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Do "ordinary" animals exist in the world of "His Dark Materials"?
In the short story Lyra's Oxford, Lyra and Pan got entangled with various birds which are expressly real animals and got saved by a swan (real animal).
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'70s or '80s sci-fi movie about a team captured by aliens after their spaceship crash-lands on a planet
Could be Spacehunter: Adventure in the Forbidden Zone. From Wikipedia:
Set in the early 22nd century, the film opens with the destruction of a space cruise liner by a bolt of nebular lightning. The ...
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A film about children playing a board game where they get sucked into the game?
Was this the episode "The Haunted House Game" from the Goosebumps TV Series?
https://goosebumps.fandom.com/wiki/The_Haunted_House_Game/TV_episode
Here's a relevant excerpt from the plot:
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Movie about space rangers fighting giant yellow bugs
Maybe this is the film "Dead Space" (1991)
A Roger Corman production, a remake in fact of an earlier Roger Corman production "Forbidden World" (1982) [aka "Subject 20" ...
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End of the world movie where only ‘bad’ people are left and a blue monster is chasing main characters
This sounds like SOS: Save Our Skins, a comedy/sci-fi adventure about the end of the world from 2014.
The main characters are two British men who were attending a sci-fi con in New York. According to ...
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Low budget, probably made-for-tv scifi/horror film where a group of blonde sorority members are really homicidal aliens?
If the killer alien blondes kill by freezing their prey, this film must surely be Decoys, a film from 2004 starring Corey Sevier. Probably the biggest name in it was Nicole Eggert (of Baywatch fame) ...
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Kinda surreal sci-fi animated movie from before 1990 on an alien planet, maybe astronauts
Your question makes me think of two distinctly different animated feature films. Neither of which is an EXACT match though.
Both "Les Maîtres du Temps" and "La Planète Sauvage" ...
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Asian movie where the final scene shows a family having dinner immediately before the nuclear apocalypse
The Last War (1961)...?
From Wikipedia:
The Last War (Japanese: 世界大戦争, Hepburn: Sekai Daisensō, lit. 'The Great World War') is a 1961 Japanese tokusatsu science-fiction film directed by Shūe ...
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Alien movie where some of the aliens were previously abducted kids
Could this be Torchwood: Children of Earth?
The plot of Children of Earth deals with aliens demanding the Earth's
children, and a related earlier conspiracy 40 years ago; as such,
Torchwood is pitted ...
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Movie about people trying to stop a dinosaur
Outlander, 2008. It’s basically Beowulf with aliens and vikings.
The monster is called a Moorwen.
The plot contains a night scene where the Moorwen lights up and shows itself.
Then there’s a sequence ...
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Late 90s or early 2000s sci-fi film where little rocks fall to earth, prick the fingers of whoever picks them up
As per Alien movie about black stones biting people, might this be the 1997 miniseries Invasion?
Small rocks fall from the sky which, when touched, trigger a latent virus that has always existed in ...
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Sci-fi movie/series with humans kept as pets by aliens
Based on the subject matter and date, it's possible this is Josh Kirby: Time Warrior! Chap. 2: The Human Pets (1995) wherein the titular hero and his friends are captured by a giant baby-alien and ...
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3D animated movie about a world falling apart
Dragon Hunters (2008)...?
From Wikipedia:
Dragon Hunters (French: Chasseurs de dragons) is a 2008 French-German-Luxembourgish 3D computer-animated adventure action fantasy comedy-drama family film ...
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Film that begins with spaceship combat seen from a cockpit or control room
Might be B-movie producer Roger Corman's attempt to cash in on the first Star Wars wave of success. The Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Written by John Sayles and Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami. There'...
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Old movie (50 years +) where older couple get a machine that allows them to live through other people
This is The Sorcerers (1967).
From Wikipedia:
The Sorcerers is a 1967 British science fiction/horror film directed by Michael Reeves, starring Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey, Ian Ogilvy, and Susan ...
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